If you live/work in an area where the power just isn't too great, possibly gets knocked out by wind say 7 times in one day or even just every now and then, you probably have seen this error. The dreaded "Active Recovery Desktop" white background with a button that SAYS it will restore your Desktop back to normal.... but never works. This can be annoying as most people think there is something terribly wrong with their machine and they've lost everything. Turns out the background just goes away and you get the wonderful white screen with a big exclamation point on it. It's an easy fix, as long as you are comfortable editing the registry. And if you're still reading this I'm pretty sure you are. So here's the fix:
1) Open up the registry by running regedit from the run box
2) Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\SafeMode\Components
3) Change the value of the HTMLDesktopVersion from whatever it is currently set to to 0
4) Right click the Desktop and click Refresh
5) Your wallpaper and icons should now be back to normal
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